INDIAN STUDENTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18579, 13 December 1934, Page 5

INDIAN STUDENTS

LIKING FOR THE LAW .10,000 A YEAR TRAINED Professor G. E. Coloiiibavini, principal for the last 30 years of the University College in the Punjab, said, on his arrival in Sydney last week, that India had to‘o many lawyers. India had been training 10,000 lawyers a year for some years, with the result that graduates could not obtain positions, and had just sufficient education to make themselves troublesome by creating discontent among lessinformed people. Professor Colombarini, who graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, said that students in India were giving themselves more to politics than to any other branch of study. They preferred political economy and constitutional law to the classics or languages. Indians went to law about the slightest little thing. They seemed to be enthralled) 4 (with the atmosphere of law courts and the administration of British justice, which had been wonderfully administered in India. They would fight over an article worth a few pence and pay many pounds in legal costs. Professor Colombarini said that intellectual Indians realised the value of constitutional law in their handling of recent political issues. In- 1891 there were five university colleges in India. Now there were 25. The Indians were keen students, and hated to be regarded as inferior to students of other countries.